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GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von; Thomas HOLCROFT, translator.
Herman and Dorothea. A Poem, from the German …
London, Biggs and Cottle (Bristol), for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1801.
First edition in English of Hermann und Dorothea (1798), translated into verse by the radical, novelist, and friend of Godwin, Thomas Holcroft. Goethe’s epic, set against the background of the French Revolutionary Wars, was immensely popular in its day; Goethe praised Holcroft’s rendition...
£350
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ARMINESI, Rocco degli.
Attila flagelum Dei, tradotto dalla vera cronica per Rocco degli Arminesi padovano. Ove si narra come detto...
Venice, Omobon Bettanino, [mid-eighteenth century].
Very rare eighteenth-century edition of a popular and best-selling poem on Attila the Hun.
£600
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[BIBLE.]
Erläuterte Bibel mit Fragen, das ist, die ganze Heilige Schrift, Alten und Neuen Testaments, nach der teutschen Ubersetzung...
Altdorf, Joh. Adam Hessel for Ernst Friderich Zobel, 1751.
A German Bible with extensive apparatus, divided into five volumes and strikingly bound in a book-shaped pull-off case.
£2750
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OSTROWSKA, Wanda; Viola G. GARVIN.
London’s Glory.
London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1945.
First edition, a poignant collection of paintings of war-torn London by the Polish artist-in-exile Wanda Ostrowska, accompanied by extracts from her own writings and narrative by Viola Garvin, our copy with an inscription from Charles B. Cochran, impresario and theatrical producer known for popularising...
£75
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JABÈS, Edmond.
Trois filles de mon quartier.
[Paris], G.L.M., [1948].
First edition of thse poems by the Egyptian–Jewish poet Edmond Jabès, no. 75 of 340 numbered copies (of which this is one of 300 on Alfama), presented by the author to the writer André Pieyre de Mandiargues (1909–1991) and his wife, the Surrealist artist Bona de Mandiargues (1926–2000), prominent...
£350
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ROBBE-GRILLET, Alain.
Souvenirs du Triangle d’Or.
[Paris], Les Éditions de Minuit, [1978].
First edition, one of 87 copies on Alfa mousse (first paper).
£350
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ROBBE-GRILLET, Alain.
Topologie d’une cité fantôme.
Paris, Éditions de Minuit, 1976.
First edition: a kind of intellectual detective story in which the reader becomes a collaborator in the solution of a crime as much his own creation as it is the author’s.
£250
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[BIBLE.]
The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments … diligently compared and revised …
Oxford, T. Wright and W. Gill, 1769.
First quarto edition of the Oxford ‘standard’ Bible, as revised by Benjamin Blayney of Hertford College, Oxford (1728–1801), later Regius Professor of Hebrew. The quarto and folio editions of 1769, of which this was the first to be finished, were printed from the same setting of type differently...
£5250
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[BIBLE.]
Single leaf from Anton Koberger’s German Bible of 1483.
[Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 17 February 1483.]
A very attractive leaf from a deluxe copy of Anton Koberger’s German Bible of 1483, with a woodcut by the Master of the Cologne Bibles.
£750
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[BILLARDON DE SAUVIGNY, Edme-Louis.]
Voyage de Madame et de Madame Victoire.
Lunéville, Messuy, [1761].
Four rare works describing visits by the princesses Adélaïde and Victoire, daughters of Louis XV and Marie Leszczyńska, to Lunéville and Nancy, in northeastern France, in 1761 and 1762, to see their grandfather Stanisław I Leszczyński, former King of Poland and then Duke of Lorraine.
£975
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[BOIS, Paul.]
La vie des premieres religieuses Capucines du monastere de Marseille.
Marseille, de l’imprimerie de Dominique Sibié, 1754.
Scarce first edition of a compendium of the lives of thirteen Capuchin nuns associated with Marseille, attributed to Paul Bois (1685–1763), curate of nearby Noyers-sur-Jabron, with a woodcut frontispiece depicting a nun before an altar.
£375
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[BRAUS, Giovanni Antonio.]
De lectione pravorum librorum. Oratio habita Regii Lepidi in studiorum instauratione ineunte anno MDCCCXXI...
Reggio Emilia, ex typis Davolii, 1821.
Rare first edition of this Latin lecture on depraved books, with a facing Italian translation, delivered by the Jesuit Giovanni Antonio Braus (1772–1823), professor of rhetoric and Greek at Reggio Emilia, at the opening of the academic year 1821.
£350
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CASSIODORUS.
Expositio Psalmorum, on Psalm LXXIII, verses 17–20.
Northern France or Low Countries, c. 1200.
A leaf with part of Cassiodorus’ commentary on Psalm 73 from an attractive manuscript of his Expositio Psalmorum.
£950
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DU TILLET, Jean.
La chronique des roys de France, puis Pharamond iusques au roy Henry, second du nom, selon la computation des...
Paris, René Avril for Galliot du Pré, 1550.
Handsome vernacular edition of Jean du Tillet’s famous chronicle of the kings of France, with additional catalogues of the Popes and Roman/Holy Roman Emperors, illustrated with five attractive woodcuts.
£1200
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FLORIO, Blasco.
Lettera sopra alcuni ostacoli che la logica, e l’ideologia presentano alle osservazioni ideologiche sugli ostacoli...
Messina, Giuseppe Fiumara, 1825.
Very rare first edition of this work on the intellectual faculties of the blind, written by the Neapolitan nobleman Blasco Florio in reply to the Osservazioni ideologiche sugli ostacoli che la cecità presenta allo sviluppo delle facoltà intellettuali dell’uomo (Catania, 1824) of the Sicilian scholar...
£475
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FORNI, Francesco.
D. O. M. Francisci Furnii Parmensis de ente naturali, et divino pronuntiata philosophica. Ad perillustrem, et...
(Colophon:) Padua, Lorenzo Pasquato, 1588.
Very rare philosophical disputation on being by Francesco Forni of Parma, delivered at the Jesuit College in Padua, and dedicated to the city’s future bishop, Marco Cornaro.
£750
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[GULIELMUS de Lavicea.]
Dieta salutis. Sancti Bonaventure doctoris eminentissimi: aureus libellus: qui dieta salutis communiter...
[(Colophon:) Venice, Cesare Arrivabene, 24 December 1518.]
A compilation of Franciscan devotional works attributed to St Bonaventure in a contemporary Florentine(?) blind-stamped binding, with a manuscript recipe in Italian written at the end of the volume.
£1250
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LIPSIUS, Justus.
Politicorum sive civilis doctrinae libri sex. Qui ad Principatum maxime spectant. Additae notae auctiores, tum...
Antwerp, Jan Moretus, ex officina Plantiniana, 1604.
A volume containing controversial works on politics and philology by the renowned scholar Justus Lipsius (1547–1606), including the first edition of his treatise on libraries, all produced by the Plantin Press.
£1250
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[LOBO, Jerónimo; Lorenzo MAGALOTTI, translator.]
Relazioni varie cavate da una traduzione inglese dell’originale portoghese.
Florence, Piero Matini, 1693.
First edition in Italian of one of the earliest and most important works on Ethiopia and the river Nile, particularly noteworthy for the inclusion of an engraved map of the sources of the Nile published here for the first time. A fine copy with a distinguished chain of provenance.
£1750
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[LOVE.]
Voyage sentimental et philosophique autour du corps d’une femme. Par D.K. de L .... Premier [– Second] volume.
Paris, à l’imprimerie du Journal de l’instruction publique, an XIII (1805).
First and only edition of a remarkable and rare work, at once a love story and a dissertation on spiritual and physical love, sex, physiognomy, and beauty.
£1500